The butterfly print...called "Butterflies in Flight"...has always been a long coveted print that originated in fabulous places like South Beach in Miami as well as many a Art Deco hotel in places like Los Angeles...Santa Monica...NYC...but especially wherever there was a tropical Art Deco movement that was innovative and inspired many through design...colorway and pattern...in the old deco Miami Beach hotels you would find draperies fashioned from this fabric...headboards tufted with it...club chairs mixed with butterfly fabric and a coordinating chartreuse or teal mohair embossed fabric with SWANK bullion fringe along the bottom...it was a look of then AND now...where designers and connoisseurs alike are recreating the magic of vintage barkcloth in vintage and contemporary projects of today...
This offering is for ONE pillow/cushion/sampler 24" wide x 23" long...of unused...unwashed...brand new from 1930's remnant cut of a wonderful 1930's barkcloth...I have 3 of these available sold individually...perfect for a fabulous collectible pillow... or framing in a sophisticated artful frame...maybe mirrored to pay proper homage :) Butterflies in Flight is a name I've coined this barkcloth many moons ago...it is what I saw in it that gave name to it...I've never seen such raw beauty of a butterfly depicted so perfectly...they are large...and so fantastic with colorful unexpected pops pf electric azure blue bodies and humongo INTOXICATING chatreuse in yellow and lime...dark luxe teal green...magenta...flamingo pink...drk chocolate...with white accents on a deep dark brand new black ground. This was made by a textile company called Spectrum Fabrics who created many of the most iconic prints still in existence...
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